[f. prec.] To enter or record in a chronicle.
a. 1440. Sir Eglam., 1339. In Rome thys geste cronyculd ys.
c. 1485. Digby Myst. (1882), III. 1329. I wyll have cronekyllyd þe ȝer and þe reynne.
1581. Mulcaster, Positions, xxxviii. (1887), 171. I beleeue that … which is cronicled of them.
1798. Southey, Occas. Pieces, xi. Whose obscurer name No proud historian’s page will chronicle.
1881. J. Russell, Haigs, Introd. 9. We do not write the history of a nation when we have chronicled its battles and tabulated its kings.
b. gen. To put on record, to register.
1460. Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866), 16. Now shall oure treson be cornicled for evar.
1591. Shaks., Two Gent., I. i. 41. He that is so yoked by a foole, Me thinkes should not be chronicled for wise. Ibid. (1604), Oth., II. i. 161. To suckle Fooles, and chronicle small Beere.
1781. Cowper, Lett., 6 Oct. There is nothing agreeable … in being chronicled for a dunce.
1866. Liddon, Bampt. Lect., viii. (1875), 489. Christ’s victory is chronicled … in the conventional standard of modern society.
Hence Chronicled ppl. a.; Chronicling vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1826. Scott, Woodst., iii. She shall have chronicled example for it.
1851. D. Wilson, Preh. Ann. (1863), II. IV. i. 168. Genealogical chroniclings of earlier periods.
1862. D. Wilson, Preh. Man, i. (1865), 8. Chronicled memorials of an older native civilisation.
1885. Athenæum, 24 Oct., 529/1. There is quite enough candid chronicling and sharp criticism in these volumes.
